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ORDINANCE NO. 3230
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, creating a fund
for the administration and accounting of revenue from the
Department of the Interior for upkeep, operation, maintenance, and
repairs of the City's municipal water treatment plant, and adding a
new section, 3.42, to Chapter 3 of the Port Angeles Municipal
Code.
WHEREAS, the City Council does hereby find that there is need to establish a
special fund to be identified as "Treatment Plant Operating and Maintenance Fund" for the
purpose of administering and accounting for revenue received from the Department of the
Interior for the purposes of upkeep, operation, maintenance, and repairs of the City's
municipal water treatment plant.
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES do hereby ordain as
follows:
Section 1. Chapter 3, Revenue and Finance, of the Port Angeles Municipal Code
is hereby amended by adding a new chapter, PAMC 3.4, to read as follows:
Chapter 3.42
TREATMENT PLANT OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FUND
Sections:
3.42.010 Fund Created.
3.42.015 Fund Subject to Conditions.
3.42.020 Expenditures.
3.42.030 Limitation on Expenditures.
3.42.040 Administration.
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3.42.010 - Fund Created.
There is hereby established in the City Treasury a fund for the fiscal administration
and accounting of revenue appropriated from the Department of the Interior for upkeep,
operation, maintenance, and repairs of the City of Port Angeles municipal water treatment plant.
Interest earnings on the fund shall be administered consistent with the City's current financial
investment policy. Said fund shall be entitled "Treatment Plant Operating and Maintenance
Fund."
3.42.015 - Fund Subject to Conditions.
The City expects that the Olympic National Park Foundation and /or National Park
Service (NPS) will make contributions to this fund. The City recognizes and accepts the
following conditions placed on money paid into this Fund by those entities. Specifically, the
City recognizes and accepts the payments from those entities subject to the following
conditions:
A. Any use of such money, other than the use contemplated in section 3.42.020
below, must be approved in advance of expenditure by the Superintendent of Olympic National
Park (Superintendent); and
B. The City will make available to the Superintendent any audit, including annual
State audits, that includes the Fund; in addition, the Superintendent is authorized to conduct an
audit of the Fund at any time; and
C. If the Elwha Dam and Glines Canyon Dam are not removed, or if the Port
Angeles Municipal Water Treatment Plant is not transferred to the City, then the money paid to
the Fund by those entities, plus accrued interest, less expenses incurred by the City for or related
to a municipal water treatment plant, shall be refunded to those entities upon the written request
and direction of the Superintendent.
3.42.020 - Expenditures .
The Treatment Plant Operating and Maintenance Fund shall be used and expended only
for the payment of necessary or proper expenditures or obligations incurred in or incident to the
repair, upkeep, maintenance or operation of the Port Angeles Municipal Water Treatment Plant,
and usual expenses related to the administration of the fund and its equitable share of general
utility expenses. Disbursements shall be made out of said fund upon the request of the Director
of Public Works and Utilities to defray such costs and expenses.
3.42.030 - Limitation on Expenditures.
No expenditure shall be made from this fund, and no amount shall otherwise be
transferred out of this fund except expenditures and transfers for the purpose of repair, upkeep,
maintenance or operation of the Port Angeles Water Treatment Plant
3.42.040 - Administration.
The Finance Director is charged with the administration of said fund.
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Section 2 - Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word
of this ordinance should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent
jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality thereof shall not affect the validity or
constitutionality of any other section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this
ordinance.
Section 3 - Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect five days following the
date of its publication by summary.
Section 4 - Corrections. The City Clerk and the codifiers of this ordinance are
authorized to make necessary corrections to this ordinance including, but not limited to, the
correction of the scrivener's /clerical errors, references, ordinance numbering, section/subsection
numbers and any references thereto.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles at a regular meeting of said
Council held on the 20th day of December
ATTEST:
Becky J. UplCgjn, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FO
William E. Bloor, City Attorney
PUBLISHED: December 25, 2005
By Summary
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December 20, 2005
Summaries of Ordinances Adopted by the
Port Angeles City Council
on December 20, 2005
Ordinance No. 3228
This Ordinance of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, approves the purchase of the
Niichel property to be acquired in part for off - street parking.
Ordinance No. 3229
This Ordinance of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, revises the nuisance and junk
vehicle enforcement procedures, adds a new chapter 8.30, and amends Ordinances 2469
and 2698, as amended, and repeals Chapter 8.04 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code.
Ordinance No. 3230
This Ordinance of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, creates a fund for the
administration and accounting of revenue from the Department of the Interior for upkeep,
operation, maintenance, and repairs of the City's municipal water treatment plant, and adds
a new section 3.42, to Chapter 3 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code.
Ordinance No. 3231
This Ordinance of the City of Port Angeles, Washington, revises water service rates and
amends Chapter 13.44 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code. This Ordinance shall take effect
January 1, 2006.
The full texts of the Ordinances are available at City Hall in the City Clerk's office or will be mailed
upon request. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Unless
otherwise stated above, these Ordinances shall take effect five days following the date ofpublication
by summary.
Becky J. Upton, CMC
City Clerk
Publish: December 25, 2005